Sentence examples for try to whitewash from inspiring English sources

Diplomats try to whitewash the differences on #banking union and #Euro-Budget October 18 , 2012While James Kanter of the International Herald Tribune and the New York Times says that the 17 members of the eurozone could break away from the 10 "outs" and hold their own private talks late tonight.

"I realised that once the Yingluck government came to power, it would try to whitewash the wrongdoings of former premier Thaksin Shinawatra," he told Thai newspaper The Sunday Nation.

Moreover, there will be enormous and understandable pressure on Obama and the House and Senate leadership, after eight long years of frustration and impotence on the left, to try to whitewash the Bush stain out of the White House in one fell swoop.

Following a judge's denial of motion to dismiss an IPO-related class action last week, this is now a real financial threat and it's not surprising that firms such as Bear Stearns or Goldman Sachs would try to whitewash the new findings as much as possible.

But you know, I'm not saying we try to whitewash this thing, there are some serious problems.

"It's impossible for anyone to try to whitewash the KKK and its overall symbolism," said Ken Hechler, a former Democratic congressman from Byrd's home state.

"They'll be trying to whitewash us, won't they?

Those who disagree say Mr. Vargas is trying to whitewash the truth.

Local historians protested that Turkey was trying to whitewash centuries of Ottoman subjugation.

By trying to whitewash that context, we reduce the Games to a mediocre West End musical.

At the interview McCarthy claimed that Baldwin was trying to whitewash the American military and that the Americans had in fact been guilty of brutal conduct.